More generally, I think the highlights of my 2012 have been meeting up with people, something that I’ve begun to look forward to after being exiled in London. Of course, there’s the good old meetups with old university friends, some of which involved riichi mahjong. But this was the year that I got to meet some of the Toronto-area cartoon heads that I’ve been talking to on twitter for a while and it was great. And even the non-cartoon head Toronto council watchers were cool too, which is unsurprising, since Toronto City Council is the secret best anime.

I am the bone of my transit
Buses are my body and Subways are my blood
I have created over a thousand lines
Unknown to approval, Nor known to completion
Have withstood pain to create many plans
Yet, this city will never build anything
So as I pray, unlimited debate works.